Comment on Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read

Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• InvestBurnout@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/marco-rubio-bans-calibri-font-at-state-department-for-being-too-dei/

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Quite interesting, but doesn’t speak to the creation of fonts specifically to make reading harder for the disabled. It even says evidence that Calibri is easier isn’t conclusive. Doesn’t say anything about whether any font was created to make reading easier or harder for anyone.

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    • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Lower "L"s and upper "i"s are basically identical in Calibri. It’s a sans serif font that’s hard to read for everyone. Calibri is an shit font and never should have been used on any government documents.

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      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I could also go on about what I think is harder or easier to read, but that’s neither here nor there. The post claims there is/are a font or fonts that were specifically created with the intention to be harder to read for the disabled, and I want to know whether that’s true.

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      • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sans serif is fine for signs, headlines, single-word content. Not so fine for text blocks, paged text, columns because it does not provide the horizontal guide that serifs provide.

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    • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There are a couple of fonts to make reading easier for various groups - visually impaired, dyslexics etc. I am not sure Calibri was designed specifically for any of them. The main problem is that there’s not the one font tht fits all.

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Awwww was baby Hegseth triggered by the mean old font? Authoritarians are so sensitive, they get upset at everything.

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